A BUFFOON AS THE PRESIDENT REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES
SPECIFICALLY ARE FOCUSING ON REFORMING EDUCATION BY TAKING
ADVANTAGE OF LOOPHOLES.
WHAT THEY WANT TO HONE IN ON IS THE
IDEA THAT SCIENCE EDUCATION SHOULD PROVIDE DIFFERENT
PERSPECTIVES LIKE CREATIONIST PERSPECTIVES OR CLIMATE CHANGE
DENIAL PERSPECTIVES.
STATES LIKE FLORIDA HAVE DONE THE FOLLOWING.
THIS IS INSANE.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT CONSERVATIVES
HAVE BEEN TACKLING OR ATTEMPTING TO TACKLE FOR
A LONG TIME.
THE
REASON WHY I BRING THIS UP IS LOOK AT THE STATES WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT, THEY ARE CONSERVATIVE RED STATES THAT DO
NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF THEIR KIDS LEARNING SCIENCE.
THEY DON'T
WANT TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND MAN
MADE.
THEY DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT THAT EVOLUTION IS REAL.
THEY
WANT TO TEACH THEIR KIDS RELIGIOUS MUMBO-JUMBO INSTEAD.
>> WERE THEY PUTTING DICK PICS INTO CLIMATE CHANGE MATERIAL?
ALTHOUGH FLORIDA IS KIND OF A DICK PICK.
>>FLORIDA IS THE DICK OF THE UNITED STATES.
>> THIS IS A NEW ORWELLIAN TACTIC.
IN THE OLD DAYS THEY
WOULD SAY WHY DON'T WE JUST TEACH THE BIBLE
IN SCHOOL?
>> I REALLY LIKE MY SUNDAY SO THANK GOD.
SUNDAY FUN DAY IS AWESOME.
>> AND THE COURTS SAID WE DON'T LIVE IN A THEOCRACY, YOUR
RELIGION DOESN'T GET TO ROLL EVERYONE.
THE CONSTITUTION VERY
CLEARLY SAYS YOU CANNOT ESTABLISH RELIGION.
SO THEY SAID
WE WILL CALL IT CREATIONISM SO IT WILL SEEM LIKE A SCIENCE.
SO
THEY TRIED THAT FOR A WHILE AND AFTER A WHILE THE COURTS CAUGHT
UP.
THE NEW THING IS ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
WONDERFULLY ORWELLIAN
BECAUSE THEY WON'T DON'T WANT YOU TO ACTUALLY TEACH THINGS
THAT ARE ACADEMIC.
WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO IS TEACH THE SAME
OLD BIBLE.
YOU CAN ADD FREEDOM TO ANYTHING AND IT WILL WORK.
BY
THE WAY BACK THEN THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT.
THAT IS WHAT THE
CONFEDERATES ACTUALLY SAID.
>>BECAUSE THEY CONSIDERED THE SLAVES THEIR PROPERTY.
>> ANYWAY BACK TO THIS.
UNDER THAT IDEA CAN YOU HAVE ACADEMIC
FREEDOM IN MATH?
MATHEMATICIANS SAY 2+2 = 4, BUT I HAVE ACADEMIC
FREEDOM SO I AM GOING TO CALL IT FIVE.
ARE YOU TRYING TO CURTAIL
MY FREEDOM?
THESE PEOPLE WITH THEIR SCIENCE AND MATH ARE
TRYING TO TAKE OUR FREEDOM AWAY.
IT'S ACTUALLY NOT EVEN THAT MUCH
OF A HYPERBOLE.
WE ROUGHLY KNOW HOW OLD THE EARTH IS AND IT IS NOT 6000
YEARS OLD.
>>IT IS JUST AMAZING TO ME THAT PARENTS – PARENTS WOULD BE THE
CATALYST FOR REFORMING THE CURRICULUM.
THEY WOULD NOT LIKE
THE FACT THAT THEY ARE LEARNING ABOUT EVOLUTION OR CLIMATE
CHANGE.
IT IS INSANE, YOU SHOULD NOT BE A PARENT.
>>THE THING IS THAT WE LIVE IN AN OCEAN OF INSANITY.
WE ARE IN
ISLAND IN THAT INSANITY OCEAN.
A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF THE WORLD
BELIEVES IN ALL THOSE FAIRYTALES.
>> IF YOU WANT TO BELIEVE IN THOSE FAIRYTALES THAT IS FINE.
HERE IS THE THING, YOU DON'T GET TO DICTATE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE
LEARN IN WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FACT-BASED SCIENCE CLASS.
YOU
DON'T GET TO TEACH MY KIDS.
IF A PARENT SHOWS UP TO MY SCHOOL
WHERE MY KID GOES AND HAS THE AUDACITY TO SAY THE SCIENCE
TEACHER NEEDS TO ALSO TEACH CREATIONISM, TALK ABOUT CLIMATE
CHANGE DENIAL, I WOULD LOSE MY MIND.
I WANT MY KID TO LEARN
FACTS, NOT WHAT YOUR FAIRYTALES ARE.
AFTER SCHOOL HOURS YOU WANT
TO GO TO CHURCH OR A TEMPLE AND PRAY TO WHOEVER, DO YOU BOO.
>> RELIGION HAS A HARD TIME GETTING ALONG WITH THE STATE
BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY SHOULD DOMINATE OVER ALL THE REST OF
US.
BUT I AM NOT IN YOUR RELIGION.
BOTTOM LINE IS IF YOU
BELIEVE IN THAT KIND OF STUFF I HAVE A GREAT COUNTRY FOR YOU, IT
IS CALLED SAUDI ARABIA.
GO THERE AND YOU CAN GET ALL THE
THEOCRACY YOU WANT, RELIGION RULES EVERYONE, SIMILAR IN IRAN.
GO FOR IT THE TALIBAN HAS A FUNDAMENTAL ESTATE YOU WILL
REALLY ENJOY.
BUT HERE IN AMERICA IT IS THE CORE OF OUR
CONSTITUTION THAT WE HAVE THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION AND
YOU CANNOT ESTABLISH A RELIGION.
THAT MEANS WE CAN BE ANY
RELIGION WE WANT OR NO RELIGION AT ALL AND YOU CANNOT ENFORCE
YOUR RELIGION ON US.
SAD DAY FOR YOU.
IF YOU WANT THEOCRACY GO TO
SAUDI ARABIA WHERE YOU BELONG.